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Module 2 Graphic Package

Graphic packages are specialized software used for creating and editing images, drawings, and designs. Examples include Ms-Paint, Adobe Photoshop, and Corel Draw, which can be categorized into painting and drawing packages, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. These packages are essential for various graphic-related tasks such as designing cards, logos, and illustrations.

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Module 2 Graphic Package

Graphic packages are specialized software used for creating and editing images, drawings, and designs. Examples include Ms-Paint, Adobe Photoshop, and Corel Draw, which can be categorized into painting and drawing packages, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. These packages are essential for various graphic-related tasks such as designing cards, logos, and illustrations.

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Graphic Packages

Graphics package are specially designed software that are used for graphic production of
images, drawing, designs, pictures and other graphic related jobs.
They are also packages use in designing professional art work. It uses lines, shapes, colours
and patterns to show information. They have some special tools that enables one to design or
draw any type of image like letter head paper, birth day card, wedding card, complementary
card, invitation card, logos, banners etc. Graphic images can be created using computers.

Examples of Graphic Packages


1. Ms-Paint
2. Instant Artist
3. Corel Draw
4. Harvard Graphics
5. Adobe Photoshop
6. Logo Graphic
7. Corel Photo-paint
8. Print Master
9. Jasc’s paint shop pro etc.

1. Ms-Paint: This is a drawing software you can use to create simple or elaborate
drawings. In this software, you select the line or shape you want to draw from the
paint toolbox, choose a colour, and then drag the mouse pointer over the page to
create the line or shape.
2. Instant Artist: The instant photo artist lets anyone to paint like a master, and the
advantage is that absolutely no experience is needed. You can add elegant artistic
images to your website that are guaranteed to make your competitors and create
stylish art for use in cards, calendars and so on.
3. Harvard Graphics: Harvard graphics was the first presentation program which
includes text, graphs and charts in one program. They made it easy for people to put
together presentations with text slides, charts based on numeric data and graphic
drawn with various tools.
4. Adobe Photoshop: Photoshop is an image editing software for Macintosh and
windows operating systems from Adobe Corporation that allows you create, modify,
combine and optimize digital images. It has the ability to filter and creates
sophisticated images both for print and the web. You can also perform complex color
manipulations or distortions with the help of Photoshop filters.

5. LOGO: This stands for Language Of Graphic Oriented is a programming language


that is use to draw figures, calculate numbers and print words by giving simple
commands with the help of the keyboard. It uses turtle to draw figures and lines on
the screen.
6. CorelDraw: This is an integrated vector graphics editor developed and marked by
Corel Corporation. It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite which includes the
bitmap image editor Corel photo-paint as well as other graphics related programs.
7. Corel Photo-Paint: This is a raster graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel
since 1992. The software is meant for windows operating systems and stores image
data as well as information objects, colour profiles, text, transparency and effect
filters.
Types of Graphic Packages
1. Painting Packages
2. Drawing Packages

1. Painting Packages: This is a type of package that produces images by changing the
colour of the pixels on the screen. These are coded as a pattern of bits to create a
bitmapped graphics file. Bitmapped graphics are used for images such as scanned
photographs or pictures taken with a digital camera. Examples are: Ms Paint, Adobe
Photoshop, JASC’s Paint Shop Pro.

Advantages of painting graphics


 The main advantage of this type of packages is that individual pixels can be changed
which makes very detailed editing possible.

Disadvantages of Painting Graphics


 Individual parts of an image cannot be resized.
 Only the whole picture can be increased or decreased in size.
 Information has to be stored about every pixel in an image which produces files that
use large amount of backing storage space.

2. Drawing Packages: This is a type of graphic package that produces images that made
up from coloured lines and shapes such as circles, squares and rectangles. They are
also known as vector graphics which stores files as a series of instructions that can be
used to recreate it. Examples are: Corel draw, Micrographix Designer, Computer
Aided Design, Computer Aided Manufacturing etc.

Advantages of Drawing Packages


 They use less storage space than bitmap graphics.
 Each part of an image is treated as a separate object, which means that individual
parts can be easily modified.

Disadvantages of Drawing Packages


 They don’t look as realistic as bitmap graphics.

Features of Graphics Package Environment


1. Title Bar: This is the top most part of the graphics environment. It contains the name
of the program, the name of the file and the sizing bar. It is blue in colour.
2. Toolbar: The toolbar is where all the tools needed for graphic jobs are kept.it
includes the select tool, text tool, fill tool and outline tool.
3. Menu Bar: The menu bar contains the menu items which contains submenus that are
commands used to carry out tasks. Examples are File, Edit, Image, View, Format,
Tools, Window and Help.
4. Printable Area: This is where the printed drawing is been placed. Any
drawing/object that is not placed on the printable area will not be print out during
printing.
5. Colour Palette: This can be found at the right side of your graphic screen and on the
toolbox.it is used to choose the colour needed to paint object. Example are outline and
fill colour.
6. Status Bar: It provides information about a selected object or about an action you are
currently performing and also gives position and status of the cursor or mouse pointer.
It can display the page number, line number etc.
7. Window Border: These are borders around windows that makes the window to be
less than full size. You can drag top, bottom or corner of the boarder to resize.
8. Rulers: It is displayed across the top and along the left side of the editing window for
sizing, positioning and switching windows.
9. Close Button: it is displayed at the top left corner of the window with the red X sign.
If active window was not saved, you will lose all your works and the window will
close.

Uses of graphic package


1. They are used to create, edit, display and print graphic image.
2. They are used to design letter head paper, birthday card, wedding card,
complimentary card, invitation card, logo, banners etc.
3. They are used for designing art works
4. They are used for designing cartoons, news, book cover, illustrations in the textbooks.

How to save a file


 Go to file on the menu bar – select “Save As”
 Then a page opens up
 Enter a file name at the location it is required.
 Then click Save/Ok.

How to Open an Existing Graphic


 Click file on the menu bar – click open
 A page displays, select document/file name to be open.
 Click open/

How to close an existing page


 Click file on menu bar – select close
 Window closes immediately.

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